Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.